Future Thieves’ tour for second album at Songbirds tonight

Since Future Thieves played here last year, the band has toured in Europe, released a single and video that premiered on Billboard. com and finished up its sophomore album.

The band is comprised of Elliot Collett, vocals, guitars and keys; Gianni Gibson, drums; Nick Goss, bass, keys; and Austin McCool, guitars.

In a phone interview, bass player Nick Goss talked about making the new album, and how the single, “Sucker,” was a bridge between the band’s debut and second recording efforts. The album doesn’t drop until later this spring, but Chattanoogans will be among the first to hear the new music when Future Thieves stops in Songbirds Guitar Museum for a show tonight, March 22.

Q: Talk a little about the band’s backstory — how’d you meet?

NG: Austin and I met in sixth grade and went all the way through high school together then Purdue University. He graduated with a degree in f inancial planning and mine was organizational leadership. Then music brought us to Nashville.

We started working with Elliot’s girlfriend at a country club, and Elliot was in a band that broke up at the time our’s did. At that time, a mutual friend of Elliot and Gianni had just moved there. The four of us weren’t in bands at the time, so we started playing music and writing our own stuff.

The f i rst place we played as a band was at The Basement, below Grimey’s New & Preloved Music (a Nashville record store) in 2013.

Q: When will the new album be out and does it have a title yet?

NG: The album is done and mastered. It’s 11 tracks. It sounds fantastic and it’s got a little bit of a new direction for us. It will be out soon; we’re working on building our plan. The album is not named yet.

Q: How does “Horizon Line” ( t he f i rst album) differ from this new one?

NG: “Horizon Line” we did in our basement in our old house that Austin and I lived in. Our landlord allowed us to build out a full studio down there. Elliot has an audio degree and has a bunch of gear — he used to set up and engineer shows. So we had all that set up down in the basement. For about a year prior, we were recording and producing anything from other people’s music demos to full albums. We were playing on them, writing with them and Elliot was engineering.

Within five or six days, we had tracked the entire (“Horizon Line”) album. So that has a really nice energy to it where you can tell it’s guys really excited, playing in a basement as loud as they can.

“Sucker” is a standalone single that came out a year ago. It’s a bridge from the first album to what we are going release.

On t he new album, there are tons of keyboards, really wild sounds and it’s a very lush album as compared to two guitars, bass and drums on the first album. It really sounds incredible!

The more Elliott writes and the more complex and mature our sound gets, the more dynamic his lyrics are. He has always done a great job of writing about things people can relate to.

Q: What ki nd of reception did you get in Europe?

Europe was great. Only Gianni had been to Europe before. We had a good reception at almost every show we played. Seeing people show up and mouth the words and know they had already been listening to the music — it was crazy to see.

Q: How will tonight’s show vary from l ast summer’s at Revelry Room?

NG: It’s a really tight set now; we’ve been playing the set for about a year all over the world. It’s really well- thought out and it’s going to be a great show.

Also, we’re excited to play when school’s in session. Last time we had a good-size crowd, so we’re pumped to come back when there will be more people in town.

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